RECALLS AND FIELD CORRECTIONS: VETERINARY MEDICINE -- CLASS II ______________________________ PRODUCT Bulk Darling's 85% Blood Meal, Flash Dried, distributed in totes and in 1-ton bags (for one customer only), Recall # V-012-2007 CODE Blood meal distributed between 9/7/2006-2/3/2007. RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER Darling National LLC, Omaha, NB, by telephone on January 12, 2007. Firm initiated recall is ongoing. REASON Some of the exempt bovine blood meal was cross-contaminated with prohibited bovine meat and bone meal that had been manufactured on common equipment and the labeling did not bear the cautionary BSE statement that it should not be fed to ruminants. VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE 1,366,128 lbs. DISTRIBUTION WI, TX, NE, TN, CO, and MN